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MetLife Foundation Announces Sponsorship of “Multipliers of Prosperity” for a Third Year

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04/05/2017

MetLife Foundation today proudly announces its third year as sponsor of Multipliers of Prosperity, an award winning custom content hub led by WSJ. Custom Studios that helps raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities in the realm of...

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Economic Security

Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program

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04/11/2017

... ensemble, and devised theater works. To that end, NEFA will use the grant to make several elements of the program ...

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Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights

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04/19/2017

... no more than 15 minutes to complete. The survey findings will be shared at the 2017 Forum Annual Conference in July. PNY staff will attend and will be happy to share the results with members...

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Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities

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06/09/2017

... the "diverse audience" field, and I imagine the foundation will be rolling out additional targeted studies over the next .....

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Bloomberg, Gates, Others Pledge $1.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio

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06/13/2017

... annually for each of the next three years. The funds will be used to support immunization and surveillance ... Nigeria, and Pakistan — the three countries where it remains endemic — and ensuring that other...

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Health

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Urban Land Institute to Partner with 100 Resilient Cities, Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation to Help Improve Resilience of Urban Areas Globally

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06/15/2017

... of their Platform of Partners. In this capacity, ULI will be offering expertise on building for resilience to a ... by 40,000-plus members dedicated to responsible land use and the creation of thriving,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

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07/06/2017

Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies "Wayne Tracker" cannot be forced to testify under oath. He does not exist. But the man who used the "Tracker" alias, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, can be...

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Modern Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, led by its Executive Director, Kathleen Lynch, and its projects will be carried out by collaborative, cross-...

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Food Systems

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with...

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

... with The Fink Family Foundation and Blue Hill Restaurant, will be hosting a special intimate dinner discussion on ... and many more around solutions to food waste. The evening will feature a special menu...

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Food Systems

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... Investments Really Have Impact As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change, a group of ...

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Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President

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09/05/2017

... project. His input is a necessary step in the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which developers BFC Partners ... that the project should be fully affordable considering it ’s being built on city land...

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Housing and Homelessness

A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

On Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a "major policy address on Title IX enforcement."

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In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration

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09/07/2017

... by himself. He then put the onus on Congress by giving it a six-month deadline to “fix” the program before it would expire. Then, barely eight hours after his decision ... for Childhood Arrivals program. “If...

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Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

... proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the western Bronx. It ’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure through which a zoning change becomes ... Coalition for a Community Vision...

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Community Development

High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize ... out there in places like Africa and Latin America, and...

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Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

... to empower advocates and civil-society groups with easy-to- use evidence to assess progress toward targets and keep the ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

Long Delays Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials

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09/19/2017

... into a dim departmental trial room this week, Mr. Blake will have waited more than 700 days to see the officer answer ... to many of the people involved. After the trial, Mr. Blake will wait again — likely for...

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Justice Reform

After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors?

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09/28/2017

When word came that two students had been stabbed inside a Bronx high school on Wednesday, the parents of several students in the elementary school housed in the same building voiced anger at a lack of metal detectors there and demanded action from...

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